CHARLATAN ON THE ROAD

Tim Burgess and music supremo Alan McGee tonight set off on a DJing double-act around the UK.

McGee has nicknamed the tour the “Diet Coke Tour” as none of them will be drinking.

He says on his Myspace page ruefully: “Looks like it will be 21 shows in 23 days. Neither of us could do that these days if we got wrecked, but sober we will walk it!’

Expect something of the flavour of McGee's Death Disco club nights - where anything from Joy Division and The Jam to Sugababes and the Shangri-La's will get spun on the wheels of steel - on the Diet Coke Tour.

Here are the club dates in full:

Silhouette Nightclub, Hull (October 5)
Fandangos, Ellon, Aberdeenshire (6)
Stavka, Glasgow (7)
Iron Works, Inverness (8)
Independent, Sunderland (9)
Stone Love @ Digital, Newcastle (12)
Tokyo Project, Oldham (13)
The Plug, Sheffield (14)
Zanibar, Liverpool (15)
Telford, tbc (16)
Tokyo, Huddersfield (17)
Blowpop, Bristol (18)
Sugarbeat @ The Elbow Rooms, Leeds (19)
53 Degrees, Preston (20)
Transmission @ 333, London (21)
Mono Bar, Southampton (22)
23-26, tbc (23-26)
Proud Galleries,London (27)
Traffo Club, Budapest (28)